FINDINGS Neuroscientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain to enhance people’s recollection of... Read more

UCLA study paves the way for creating on and off buttons for chemical reactions UCLA physicists have pioneered a method for creating a unique new molecule that could eventually have applicat... Read more

Cellular time machine’ could eventually benefit humans, too UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine — turning back the clock on a key component... Read more

Covering 70 percent of Earth’s surface, the world’s oceans are vast and deep. So vast, in fact, that nearly every coastal country has the potential to meet its own domestic seafood needs thr... Read more

The new building material could transform polluting emissions into a valuable resource Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywh... Read more

UCLA neuroscience research suggests an avenue for treating the empathically challenged It’s an age-old quandary: Are we born “noble savages” whose best intentions are corrupted by civilizati... Read more

UCLA geochemist finds striking similarities between climate change patterns today and millions of years ago In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer and ocean levels w... Read more

Magnesium infused with dense silicon carbide nanoparticles could be used for airplanes, cars, mobile electronics and more A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engi... Read more

Some skin wounds, such as diabetic ulcers, are chronic and may never heal; others, such as burn wounds, are often large and difficult to treat, resulting in pain, infection and scarring. Res... Read more

UCLA-led research on telomerase could lead to new strategies for treating disease An enzyme called telomerase plays a significant role in aging and most cancers, but until recently many aspe... Read more

Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps A 39-year-old man who had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily... Read more

Sandia method cheaper, greener and cuts competition for fertilizer Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the biggest costs in cultivating algae for biofuels. Sandia molecular biologists... Read more

The materials in most of today’s residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capab... Read more

New attachment turns a smartphone into a microscope that can image and size DNA molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair If you thought scanning one of those strange, square QR codes... Read more

It is capable of holding more than twice as much charge as a typical thin-film lithium battery. Charge storage device created at California NanoSystems Institute is vast improvement over exi... Read more